"I am a trembling mess from hip to……" — Anne Enright
"I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital."
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Anne Enright
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55 Quotes by Anne Enright
Anne Enright has 55 quotes on this site.
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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good.…
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It…
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do…
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly…
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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with…
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing…
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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them…
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have…
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking
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More Confusing Quotes
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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I'll find myself having dinner with people and someone will mention something and I will say I was in that…
— Christian Bale
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I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't…
— Adele
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
— Yogi Berra
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
— Yogi Berra
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
— Erma Bombeck
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The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
— James Agee
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As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
— Chaz Bono
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep…
— Gabriel Byrne
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?'…
— Ian Anderson
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I think one of the great, great problems...is confusing people to the point where they become immobile. In fact, the…
— Cesar Chavez
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